I work at a large software company in Redmond, WA where we have 4 - 5 thousand job openings at any given time. Problem is we cant find the people with the experience, skills and education needed to fill them.

My point exactly. Given the state of our public education system and the power of the NEA, this won't change anytime soon. Americans should consider a class action suit against the education monopoly. k-12 of socialist theory won't buy you bread...

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posted on 11/19/2010 12:10:19 PM PST
by April Lexington
(Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)

Also, we've been looking for a social media manager for months. The young have no interest in working 50+ hours per week and nobody over 30 can even spell social media. So... the job sits vacant and we lose market share...

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posted on 11/19/2010 12:15:03 PM PST
by April Lexington
(Study the Constitution so you know what they are taking away!)

Also, we've been looking for a social media manager for months. The young have no interest in working 50+ hours per week and nobody over 30 can even spell social media. So... the job sits vacant and we lose market share...

Nobody over 30 can spell social media....how very condescending of you. If you are a reflection of the culture in your company it might explain why no one wants to work there.

“What I do know is my own experience and I see way too much misinformation and ridiculous assumptions from people here and I am shocked by it.”

How many people on unemployment qualify for the military I wonder?

“I use this site as a resource for all news topics because I trust that I will read honest, informed discussion that is censored out from the regular news media. I will continue to do so, but I can tell you from my experience in this thread, there are a lot of hollering, unaware people are here as well.”

I realize you paid into FICA. Your boss also paid into Employer Matching. He didn’t get a tax return. On average, we would all have been better off if Social-ist Security never existed. More money to invest. Private insurance for contingencies.

“In 1923, the United States produced 49% of all products worldwide. 6 In the years between 1919 and 1927, the American economy grew ten times as fast as in the years of 1900-1919. 7”

[Twenty years dominated by Teddy and Woodrow Wilson — 1900-1919. Even sharper than that — a depression that spilled into 1921. 1919 and 1927 ... sharper than that ... the Harding Recovery from 1921 policy / Roaring Twenties, leaping out from a depression through tax cuts AND spending cuts! It would be interesting to compare Teddy’s Panic of 1907 on through to Wilson’s depression into 1921 with Harding’s 1922 - 1927]

Did I say that? I’m just pointing out that people hide behind their families saying that they absolutely must have extended unemployment. Oh? There is NOTHING they can do? There are options. I found work in fast food and could have run my own restaurant if I wanted it badly enough.

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posted on 11/19/2010 1:31:24 PM PST
by Arthur Wildfire! March
(Economic reform? Great. But without education reform -- history will repeat itself.)

I hear you. Will it get rough? Darn straight. People will need to rent out their homes and move in with family. They are going to have to make some hard choices. And while 18 year olds are complaining about no work, the US is recruiting foreigners to serve in the military. I guess those kids think they’re too good for that.

Unemployment is being covered by more debt. China just bought 17% of GM with our debt repayments. Greece ended up selling some of its islands to cover socialist programs. The European Union is in collapse. People are rioting in France, England, and Greece. Heck I bet they’re rioting in other countries. Who is going to keep loaning the US money?

The economy gets moving again when people start working again. That will increase revenue for the government too. The answer is not more unemployment. That’s the worst choice.

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posted on 11/19/2010 1:41:49 PM PST
by Arthur Wildfire! March
(Economic reform? Great. But without education reform -- history will repeat itself.)

One of our relative has been collecting unemployment for ever. His wife works so he tells us it cheaper for him to stay at home and watch the kids then to go to work.

we might have the same relative! my nephew has been doing this for years... his wife works... he stays home with the kids and collects unemployment... his wife went to work 2 weeks after delivering their second baby... and she had a c-section!

I can’t believe I’m being cussed out by a freeper who wants an unemployement EXTENSION. For crying out loud — how long does it last now? Mark Stein pointed out that no nation on earth has unemployment benefits that last as long as the US. I could understand a leftist bedwetter being dissatisfied with the most padded unemployment system on earth, but a freeper?

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posted on 11/19/2010 1:45:23 PM PST
by Arthur Wildfire! March
(Economic reform? Great. But without education reform -- history will repeat itself.)

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